Probably the optimal unit? Take a transport.
Friday, April 26, 2024
Horus Heresy 2e Review: Pursuer Cadre
Probably the optimal unit? Take a transport.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Horus Heresy 2e Review: Kharon Pattern Acquisitor
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Horus Heresy 2e Review: Vigilator Cadre
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Horus Heresy 2e Review: Prosecutor Cadre
Monday, April 22, 2024
eBay: Ancient Striking Scorpions
Anyone care for some very old Striking Scorpions?
If so, you're in luck on eBay this week! And they come with the era-defining goblin green painted slotta bases - what more could you want.
Still got some stuff up from previous weeks including a Zombie Dragon, a Dornian Heresy Iron Hands test model, and a Great Unclean One from Realms of Chaos era!
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Emperor's Children Commander
Painting up this command for the Emperor's Children was a good exploration of how to use (and not use) purple colours. Originally I thought about going for a bit more of a metallic sheen, but in the end the purple that came out was not metallic whatsoever. I'm comfy with that.
The contrast paint was used more as a shade for the phoenix purple base colour in the end which proved a good move. The gene stealer purple was then freed up to use as an accent. The gold and the white on the marine provides a really good accent colour to the deeper purple and this has come out really well overall. Coupled with a steady hand to get the eyeballs looking right and I'm more than happy with this miniature. It will serve as either a Praetor or consul for the Emperor's Children allied detachment that I have constructed - more on that in a later post.
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Assault Squad and the Rule of Cool
Friday, April 19, 2024
Horus Heresy 2e Review: Eradicator Cadre
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Horus Heresy 2e Review: Oblivion Knight Cadre
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Horus Heresy 2e Review: Knight Vestal Covenant
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Horus Heresy 2e Review: Raptora Cadre
Sunday, April 14, 2024
eBay this week: Slann, Dornian Heresy Iron Hands, Death Guard OOP model and more
Continuing my Spring clear out (which will probably progress relentlessly through the year) I have added a number of different models that I hope someone out there will find tempting enough to place a bid on so that they can find a new home!
Digging deep, I've located a whole lot of Slann! These are designated as Cold One Riders, and date back many decades to the original Warhammer Fantasy Battle. They're really rare these days an an individual one of them sells for over 10 pounds each. This is a job lot for 12 of them. Hope that they can find a home where they don't languish without any play!
I'm also auctioning off my Dornian Heresy Iron Hands test model conversion! The Dornian Heresy is an alternate heresy where Dorn is the main heretic and protagonist. Herein, the Iron Hands went a bit too far with replacing their flash and melded with some necron technology. This miniature is a one of a kind conversion and although I'm loathe to part with it, - its time. The marine has a gauss weapon and is mounted on a resin base. I could see it being used in 40k, but if I'm honest, I think the attraction would be to build a Blackshields force for 30k / Horus Heresy around this kind of concept (think: Xenos weapons coupled with being automata essentially - the Oaths are there to be used!).
I've also dug out a Death Guard plague marine in metal from the early 2000's which is unpainted an assembled. Starting bid in Nurgle's sacred number, just because.
Re-listings are also up for items like a Great Unclean One, and a pair of Plague Ogryns in resin. Oh, and the Zombie Dragon.
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Painting With Decals!: Iron Warriors Rhino Dedicated Transport
Friday, April 12, 2024
Horus Heresy 2e Review: Questora Cadre
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Horus Heresy 2e Review: Silent Fury
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Horus Heresy 2e Review: Silent Judge
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Horus Heresy 2e Review: Knight Centura
Monday, April 8, 2024
Painted Possessed
A batch of painted possessed completed recently. These marines follow the off-centre colour scheme started with my Gal Vorbak which features blue flesh, alongside more typical Word Bearer colouration coupled with a head replacement on one of them for a more human touch which I think makes it more fearful and imposing. The blue could do with a touch more highlighting, and the reds a touch more shading to be honest. But they're tabletop ready otherwise.
I plan to use them as a second unit of Gal Vorbak ultimately. They are of roughly the same size and scale as the Gal Vorbak and can certainly take a spot alongside them without too much issue. That said, I would be the first to admit that I prefer the Forge World sculpts of the original Gal Vorbak, but these do rather well.
Sunday, April 7, 2024
eBay this week: 2x Rogue Trader Chaos Dreadnoughts and Zombie Dragon!
Painted Iron Hands Praetor / Siege Breaker
Friday, April 5, 2024
Horus Heresy 2e Review: Knight Abyssal
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Horus Heresy 2e Review: Jenetia Krole
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Horus Heresy 2e Review: Sisters of Silence Rules
Anathema.
There are 3 chambers - Vigilance, Oblivion, and Judgement. Players get an allocation of treble the number of units per HQ for each chamber (except Vigilance which is always available). In other words, if you have 2 Oblivion HQ selections, you get 6 other choices of units with the same Chamber.
Monday, April 1, 2024
Wargames Gallery Showcase: Shattered Legions
Sunday, March 31, 2024
eBay this week: A single lonely Zoat / Rogue Trader Era
Wargames Gallery: Moon Station Alpha
Friday, March 29, 2024
Iron Warriors Cataphractii Terminators
Finished painting the squad of Iron Warriors Cataphractii Terminators!
These hardened warriors are kitted out for close combat duty with 4 of them sporting twin lightning claws, and the fifth a heavy flamer and power fist. Perhaps in hind sight I should have just gone with all five of them as lightning claws, but I do like the heavy flamer in a close combat squad regardless. Not only for softening up the enemy before charging, but also as an anti-charge deterrent.
Perhaps the most novel feature of the paint scheme here is the wet blending on the lightning claws, combined with dry brushing of reds up the arms to where the yellow and black hazard stripes are located. It is meant to give off a theme of red hot claws capable of slicing through anything. The chaos lord arms in particular work very well here indeed. I've also applied the same approach to the flamer. I am not quite as sold on the approach here, but what it does do well is to tie the squad together in a cohesive painting scheme which the bases round off nicely.
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Horus Heresy 2e Review: Legion Warmonger Consul
Monday, March 25, 2024
Wargames Gallery: Iron Hands Push
Sunday, March 24, 2024
eBay Listings this week: Tinboyz, Plague Ogryns, Ral Partha Darksun, Dragonlance, Great Unclean One and more!
Saturday, March 23, 2024
Exodus Painted
Exodus was a pleasure to paint! My take on him follows the standard Alpha Legion approach that I've worked on over the years with metallic blue main parts, silver edging, and highlights as appropriate.
The Instrument is not so picked out here - I was aiming for a plainer approach overall which is complemented nicely with the Armageddon Dunes on the base in terms of the colouring. The decal on the tabard is from the standard transfer sheet.
For the cape of the model, I decided on something much more original!
Behold a pointillism colour transition! The idea here is straight forward enough. Stripes of colour from black to blue and back again have been done diagonally across the cape. These have then had points of colour from the adjoining colours applied to them to help blend them together. From a distance the effect is beautiful. Even close up, it still works, but it becomes obvious how the transition has been accomplished. And maybe that's how Exodus' technology works: pixels of colour that change like a chameleon. Just my take on the concept anyway. Hope you like it!
Friday, March 22, 2024
World Eaters Warmonger / Praetor
A new conversion today - this time for the World Eaters! Plans are afoot for a small allied detachment of this legion. This particular miniature will serve as either a Praetor (in which case the weapon is a paragon blade) or as a Warmonger - primarily for the use of the teleport device (in which case the weapon might be an excoriator?).
The bits used are most obviously a Red Butcher body. The arms and weapon come from the Dark Angels terminator range. The shoulder pads are Forge World resin Tartaros armour. I wanted this guy to suggest violence incarnate combined with martial skill and intimidation. I think it does so in droves.
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Horus Heresy 2e Review: Ares Gunship
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Horus Heresy 2e Review: Orion Assault Dropship
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Horus Heresy 2e Review: Telemon Heavy Dreadnought
Sunday, March 17, 2024
This Week's eBay: Primus Medicae, Great Unclean One, Dragonlance, and Quantum Gothic
This week on eBay, I have several items for sale. As per usual, I am selling older bits and pieces that haven't seen much recent use and I want to turn them into cash to fund the next additions to my collection. Or as my wife says: I have to get rid of things before buying new things. So help your bro out?!
The first one is a Mint Condition Primus Medicae. Now, I suspect my long time readers will wonder why on earth I want to sell this one rather than use it? In truth, I've not quite figured out how to best use it. I originally bought it to slot in with my Alpha Legion Lernaeans - the extra IWND rolls are crazy good in principle, but my use of the elites slot usually counts against me here I have to say. Hence the Primus Medicae has been sat in his box for half an eternity - I basically bought it upon release. This is unopened in its box.
The second one is one of my treasured possessions. A metal Realms of Chaos / Rogue Trader Era Great Unclean One of Nurgle. Why sell such an item? I actually have two of them, but neither have been used in a decade. I don't intend to use them either. So its time. He has seen many battles and many victories and defeats. He's also a little delicate, so I promise to wrap him carefully for postage.
The third one is a Catalyst Missile Launcher from Quantum Gothic. I've been using it as scenery and terrain on and off for years. But given how I've never painted it, and how I've got plenty of other terrain, it is surplus to requirements. I've seen some interesting conversions for Whirlwinds and similar using this piece, so go wild if you want!
And finally on the roleplaying game front, I am offering up the core of my Classic Dragonlance collection. Classics volumes 1, 2, and 3, as well as Dragonlance Adventures as a single job lot. I haven't so much as opened them up in a decade and my younger family don't show too much interest. Plus I need space on the shelves. I hope these will find a great new home as they have certainly been well loved over many, many years, and over no fewer than three total play-throughs with a variety of RPG groups over the years prior. If you buy this, please play it and give it life once more - I'd love to hear if your group plays them through!
Good luck to anyone bidding! I'll have more up in future weeks as I clear out some older stuff to make way for newer items.